Portland from the ground up, all ground up

When all you've got is a camera the whole world looks like a photograph.

Geo-localized mimetic documentary visual representations of cosmopolitan social infrastructural reality. HUH? You mean, like, snapshots of buildings, streets and people?

Quantum Theory: Bits of Portland Flow in Waves of Light

A Digital Picture Postcard from Portland Oregon

Localized Cybernetic Visions of Community Building and Place Making

"I'm walking these streets ... and I don't lie awake at night. But every once in a while, right out of the blue, I remember you."

Street Level Portland - An eye on the town, a foot on the ground

This is your brain. This is PDX. And this is your brain looking at PDX on Portland Ground. Any questions?

Visitor Guide: See the Portland a Tourist Never Sees

Oregon's Latest Slogan: You Have Got To Be Dreaming.

The Fine Art of Street Photography

Moving to Portland? What does Portland look like anyway?

New Urbanism, I'd like you to meet the Old Urbanism and... oh look! There's Land Use Planning and Green Urban Design! Such a lovely couple... don't you just love a party?

Looking for the best Portland look

Photo shoot in a rainstorm

Show me Portland!

Visiting Portland: A Quick Visit to PDX

Photos from the Local Life of Neighborhoods

"... grant dew and rain as a blessing." Jewish prayer

Traveling? See Portland before you travel

The appearance of Portland in space and time

Photoblog from a Western Town

Get real Portland, now showing here

Young creative... and looking for work

Portland Documented: The ebb and flow of metropolitan experience in documentary photographs

Place-based photo journalism direct from the surface of Planet Earth

Looking for a few good photos

What's happening in the Portland scene?

High tech meanderings through low technology streets by a medium technology guy

Walking around beneath a soggy sky

Reality? An interesting theory!

A Man, a Camera, a Raincoat, Portland

Vision of Decay and Rebirth in a Pacific Northwest City

Portland: Image and Reality

Beer food bikes and long hot summers

I walk the streets of Portland so you don't have to.

Far away, and kinda likes it that way

A virtual perspective on the Portland village

Photograph Definition: A photograph is a shallow map of the play of light upon surface, a deep record of time, place and human experience, and a re-presentation of the familiar in a form that enables us to see our world in ways we might not otherwise have imagined. No really. I wouldn't just make that up.

Portland Oregon: Just a rusty old machine for turning coffee into life

PDX Definition - University (PSU), airport (Portland International), urban environment

Landscape, cityscape, geoscape, mindscape, dreamscape, escape.

The best little Portland website in Oregon

Digital ruminations on PDX

If this is a photo journal, am I a photojournalist?

A wedding of photography and Portland, a marriage of convenience and necessity, a celebration of the inevitable and the improbable

Events in Your Head Are Closer Than They Appear

A mind with a view

Virtual Tour Portland: A visitor's trail guide to walking environments and people

Giving Portland my best shot

Portland Secret: Stay dry by walking between the raindrops

Missing Portland? If you miss or have ever missed Portland...

Everyday Portland Life, Every Day

Rhapsodic views from an urban rainforest

"One little drop of falling rain, one little chance to try again, one little bird that makes it home now and then..." Gillian Welch

Portland Webcast - Webcasting 700 Horizontal Pixels of PDX Daily

Street Photography from the Heart

"The City That Works" - Portland's Official Motto, for what it is worth.

Living the Portland Life

City of Neighborhoods

A Walk Between the Raindrops

Portland Metro is the only elected regional government in America, and that plus $1.65 will buy you a fine cup of coffee in this town. (But it'll also get you a nice light rail system and a fine little zoo.)

Planet Portland to Planet Earth - Do you copy?

Seeking a visual sense of place

Fact #17: Portland has a high rate of small business ownership and is a transportation hub and... Oh look! A donut shop! And a freight train!

Explore Portland - A virtual tour

"May the blessing of the rain be on you— the soft sweet rain." Irish proverb

A Journey through Stumptown in the Eye of the Mind

Logging the Photons of Urban Oregon

Light Here in River City

Miles Hochstein is a Portland Oregon photographer and technical tinker who also works a straight job and raises his children beneath these Oregon skies.

Portland in a box... a little tiny box. Open the lid and peek inside.

Dear Searchbot, was it as good for you as it was for me?


Explanation 1

ground ground get a ground, I get a ground.....
the ground on which we stand
hold your ground in the daily grind
ground glass ground round
ground coffee ground pepper
ground flour ground corn
ground keeper ground sweeper
ground water ground deliver
ground floor ground game
ground ball ground out
ground up ground down
ground loop signal ground
floating ground power ground
shaky ground shifting ground
ground zero on the underground
hit the ground running and run to ground
groundless fear groundless complaint groundless hope
air to ground, ground to air, ground to ground
electric ground battle ground stomping ground
sacred ground playground bass ground still resound
burial ground holy ground all around
seeking common ground on the fairground merry-go-round
well grounded dream and totally grounded teen
grounded flight and ground control
ground of being still unseen

Any questions?


Explanation 2

Long ago in Portland a dear friend wrote a little tiny column in the college paper: Ground Watch. Every week she would report briefly on how the ground was doing, a sentence or two, no more. Then she moved away, then I moved away, then years and, yes, decades passed. One day I decided to call a web site "Portland Ground", and then, some time later, I realized that she had given me that word, and that she was one of the people who had taught me to notice the little things that other people may not think are important. Ground Watch lives, in my own way, in Portland Ground. Thanks G.

Post Script: Portland Ground is proud to present the 28th (or so) Anniversary Edition of Ground Watch - Exclusively on Portland Ground.

Ground Watch

"We have frost, now. If you stop on a frosty sidewalk and get really close, nose-to-nose, with the frost, you will see that it is made up of amazing ice-crystal jewels. The thought of crushing them may stop you in your tracks. So don't try this until you're almost home, so someone can look out of the window and see your dilemma and come to rescue you."

G.0., Winter 2005-2006